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produced by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2013), 43 mins

Climate Change is among the most serious challenges facing Pacific Island countries and territories. The small island nations of Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia are no exception particularly with the impacts posed to their communities. This documentary is part of a series of infor...

Climate Change is among the most serious challenges facing Pacific Island countries and territories. The small island nations of Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia are no exception particularly with the impacts posed to their communities. This documentary is part of a series of informational videos produced by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Global Climate Change Alliance: Pacific Small Island States Proj...Climate Change is among the most serious challenges facing Pacific Island countries and territories. The small island nations of Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia are no exception particularly with the impacts posed to their communities. This documentary is part of a series of informational videos produced by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Global Climate Change Alliance: Pacific Small Island States Project - a European Union funded initiative being implemented in 9 Pacific Small Island States.
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Timelapse footage of strong winds blowing clouds above and air pollution below. The pollution forms a visible layer above the ground. The source of this pollution is the city of Denver, Colorado, USA. The strong northerly winds associated with a cold front are blowing the pollution back to its source. Filmed in Co...

Timelapse footage of strong winds blowing clouds above and air pollution below. The pollution forms a visible layer above the ground. The source of this pollution is the city of Denver, Colorado, USA. The strong northerly winds associated with a cold front are blowing the pollution back to its source. Filmed in Colorado, USA, in winter.

Antarctic ozone hole maximum size, 1979-2015. Ozone concentrations are colour-coded, with the purple and dark blue areas representing the lowest levels, constituting the "hole". The hole was first detected in mid 1970s, and was found to be due to chemical reactions between the atmosphere and chlorofluorcarbon gase...

Antarctic ozone hole maximum size, 1979-2015. Ozone concentrations are colour-coded, with the purple and dark blue areas representing the lowest levels, constituting the "hole". The hole was first detected in mid 1970s, and was found to be due to chemical reactions between the atmosphere and chlorofluorcarbon gases (CFCs), which were widely used as refrigerants and propellants. CFCs were banned by the Montreal Protocol in 1987. The maximum extent...Antarctic ozone hole maximum size, 1979-2015. Ozone concentrations are colour-coded, with the purple and dark blue areas representing the lowest levels, constituting the "hole". The hole was first detected in mid 1970s, and was found to be due to chemical reactions between the atmosphere and chlorofluorcarbon gases (CFCs), which were widely used as refrigerants and propellants. CFCs were banned by the Montreal Protocol in 1987. The maximum extent of the hole was recorded in 2006. The measurements were made by NASA’s Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments, and by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), from 2004-present. Every year from 1979 to 2015 appears in this montage except 1995, for which there is no data.
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Field of Study

Environmental Studies

Content Type

Instructional material

Contributor

Science Photo Library

Date Published / Released

2016

Publisher

Science Photo Library

Topic / Theme

Geography, Ecology, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )

'BIOMIMICRY is a profound way for a viewer to invest 90 minutes. They convincingly show the importance (and also the challenge) of changing our world view to be one that focuses on a dialogue with, and adopting the ways of, nature rather than one of domination and control.' Professor Robert M. Goodman, PhD, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisco...

Using natural processes as the model for agriculture and business.

'BIOMIMICRY is a profound way for a viewer to invest 90 minutes. They convincingly show the importance (and also the challenge) of changing our world view to be one that focuses on a dialogue with, and adopting the ways of, nature rather than one of domination and control.' Professor Robert M. Goodman, PhD, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

'Introduces a concept worthy of wide exploration in a world dazzled by the industrial artifacts around us...Over the millions of years, nature's life forms through natural selection have had to live with the constraints of the entropy law on a solar budget.'Wes Jackson, The Land Institute

'Viewers of BIOMIMICRY: LEARNING FROM NATURE will be captivated by an insider's view of exciting current research, dazzled by the infinite possibilities open for exploration, and inspired by the implications that biomimicry has for a healthier world.'Alexis Karolides, AIA, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute

produced by United States. Department of the Interior (District of Columbia: United States. Department of the Interior, 1937), 35 mins

Reel 1 shows the Colorado River and the arid deserts of the Southwest. Bulldozers build a road to the proposed dam site. A train brings in supplies and materials made throughout the U.S. The dam site is surveyed. Shows Boulder City, Nev., including workmen's dormitories, kitchen, and mess hall. Workers ride to the...

Reel 1 shows the Colorado River and the arid deserts of the Southwest. Bulldozers build a road to the proposed dam site. A train brings in supplies and materials made throughout the U.S. The dam site is surveyed. Shows Boulder City, Nev., including workmen's dormitories, kitchen, and mess hall. Workers ride to the dam site in trucks and drill and blast out diversion tunnels. Power shovels clear debris. Reel 2, diversion tunnels are blasted open a...Reel 1 shows the Colorado River and the arid deserts of the Southwest. Bulldozers build a road to the proposed dam site. A train brings in supplies and materials made throughout the U.S. The dam site is surveyed. Shows Boulder City, Nev., including workmen's dormitories, kitchen, and mess hall. Workers ride to the dam site in trucks and drill and blast out diversion tunnels. Power shovels clear debris. Reel 2, diversion tunnels are blasted open and cofferdams are constructed. Bulldozers and trucks clear excavated material. Sand and gravel is brought in by train and is screened, washed, and graded. Concrete is mixed and is carried by truck and locomotive to the dam site. Reel 3, concrete is poured into forms. Shows the interior of a tunnel, the intake towers, spillways, and penstock valves. Tubing is made at the dam site and is assembled by workmen. Reel 4, penstock pipe sections are trucked from factory to the dam site and lowered into position by cable. Concrete is poured into cofferdams. President Roosevelt speaks at the dedication ceremonies. Shows flashes of spillways, transmission towers, and power lines, and an aerial view of Boulder Dam and Lake Meade.
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Field of Study

American History

Content Type

Documentary

Contributor

United States. Department of the Interior

Date Published / Released

1937

Publisher

United States. Department of the Interior

Topic / Theme

Water in the American West, Civil engineering, Dams, Science and Technology, Climate and the Environment, Ecology, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Bloom of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) at the edge of a lake. Blooms such as this may be caused by fertiliser runoff. Some cyanobacteria produce toxic chemicals, and such blooms can severely impact other life in the lake.

Bloom of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) at the edge of a lake. Blooms such as this may be caused by fertiliser runoff. Some cyanobacteria produce toxic chemicals, and such blooms can severely impact other life in the lake.

Animation of the Earth showing the effects on the landmasses of a sea level rise of 70 metres. The familiar outlines of the continents are drastically altered in this scenario. It has been calculated that the complete melting of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets would cause such a rise, with Greenland contri...

Animation of the Earth showing the effects on the landmasses of a sea level rise of 70 metres. The familiar outlines of the continents are drastically altered in this scenario. It has been calculated that the complete melting of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets would cause such a rise, with Greenland contributing some seven metres, and Antarctica more than 61m. Earth's sea level has fluctuated considerably even in the recent past: during t...Animation of the Earth showing the effects on the landmasses of a sea level rise of 70 metres. The familiar outlines of the continents are drastically altered in this scenario. It has been calculated that the complete melting of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets would cause such a rise, with Greenland contributing some seven metres, and Antarctica more than 61m. Earth's sea level has fluctuated considerably even in the recent past: during the last glacial maximum some 20,000 years ago, so much water was stored as ice that sea levels were around 120 metres lower than today.
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Field of Study

Environmental Studies

Content Type

Instructional material

Contributor

Science Photo Library

Date Published / Released

2012

Publisher

Science Photo Library

Topic / Theme

Climate Change - Context and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Ecology, 21st Century in World History (2001– )

Humans are the most successful species on the planet. But our growing economy is placing unprecedented demand on the planet's limited ecological resources. How can we assure our future well-being?

'We can choose to live on a depleted planet or we can choose to live on a rich, biologically diverse, more stable planet' proposes Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint. He suggests that an essential step in avoiding depletion i...

Humans are the most successful species on the planet. But our growing economy is placing unprecedented demand on the planet's limited ecological resources. How can we assure our future well-being?

'We can choose to live on a depleted planet or we can choose to live on a rich, biologically diverse, more stable planet' proposes Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint. He suggests that an essential step in avoiding depletion is to track ecological assets, allowing us to make more informed choices.

In the film, Wackernagel introduces the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures human demand on the Earth. Footprint accounts work like a bank statement, documenting whether we are living within our ecological budget or consuming nature's resources faster than the planet can renew them.

In just thirty minutes, the film paints a picture of our current global situation: for the first time, humanity is in 'ecological overshoot' with annual demand on resources exceeding what Earth can regenerate each year. Most countries are running ecological deficits, with Footprints larger than their own biological capacity. Wackernagel explores the implications of these ecological deficits, and provides examples of how governments, communities and businesses are using the Footprint to help improve their ecological performance.

For Wackernagel, 'Sustainability boils down to how we can all live well, how we can all have great lives, within the means of one small planet.' He concludes on a hopeful note, showing how a new organization, Global Footprint Network, is partnering with government agencies, businesses, universities and NGOs to support the use of the Ecological Footprint and to help turn this vision of a sustainable future into reality.

Dr. Mathis Wackernagel introduces the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures human demand on the Earth.
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While the environment may be threatened by man, it will also be saved by man. So believes Pierre Dansereau, ecologist, visionary and inveterate optimist. Brimming with an amazing vitality at age 90, the internationally renowned scientist has a wide-ranging knowledge and a passionate commitment to humanity. In retr...

GROWING DREAMS gives an inspirational overview of school ground greening. It shows what kids have done to transform bare pavement into dream schoolyards: growing trees for shade, flowers for butterflies, vegetables for a food bank; building a greenhouse, a rooftop garden and constructing a courtyard pond as an out...

GROWING DREAMS gives an inspirational overview of school ground greening. It shows what kids have done to transform bare pavement into dream schoolyards: growing trees for shade, flowers for butterflies, vegetables for a food bank; building a greenhouse, a rooftop garden and constructing a courtyard pond as an outdoor classroom and refuge for wildlife. 'A Crack in the Pavement' is a two-part video series that shows children, teachers and parents...GROWING DREAMS gives an inspirational overview of school ground greening. It shows what kids have done to transform bare pavement into dream schoolyards: growing trees for shade, flowers for butterflies, vegetables for a food bank; building a greenhouse, a rooftop garden and constructing a courtyard pond as an outdoor classroom and refuge for wildlife. 'A Crack in the Pavement' is a two-part video series that shows children, teachers and parents how, working together to green their school grounds, they can make positive changes in their communities.The other film in the series is: Digging In - Jesse Ketchum School greens their schoolyard.

An inspirational overview of school ground greening.

'A tremendous resource for school communities interested in transforming their schoolyards into havens for hands-on learning. The voices and stories of the students, teachers and communities' members involved in these projects will inspire all to see the opportunities that await just outside the classroom door.' Stephanie Stowell, Schoolyards Habitat Program Manager, National Wildlife Federation'Colorful and energetic...Recommended. Both titles provide positive messages and solid information, and could be used with students ranging from kindergarten to high school. This series could also offer valuable viewing to community service organizations.' MC Journal'Interspersed with witty cartoon graphics...serve(s) as a great way to introduce school ground naturalization to a club, class, staff, or parent group.' Green Teacher'Sure to get kids thinking about similar schemes.' Booklist